Resource Based Economy (Energy, Work) - Part 2 of 2

Capitalism has helped to progress humanity, but we need to adapt to the new reality of advancing technology and the unsustainable depletion of our natural resources. Some other useful readings:

■ "Aftershock" by Robert Reich, http://www.amazon.com/Aftershock-Economy-Americas-Future-Vintage/dp/030747633...
■ "Lights in the Tunnel" by Martin Ford, http://www.lightsinthetunnel.com
■ "Singularity" by Ray Kurzweil, http://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology/dp/0143037889...

Take a look at the modern manufacturing process to see how automated it has become, http://youtu.be/kvf29R7nXlM. Economic stagnation is the result of too much control over too much wealth in too few hands. Economic growth is only possible with a vibrant mass market of consumers who have the means spend, http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/03/29/business/20070329_TAX_GRAPHIC.html. Notice how unemployment lasts longer in the last four recessions than all previous ones, the result of offshoring and automation, http://cr4re.com/charts/chart-images/PercentJoblossesSept2011.jpg.

Part 1 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxr51DrzdrE

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[MrSaint3]

I understand they are trying to make a movie that will showcase life in an RBE. The Venus Project is seeking donations for this, is there anyone supporting it? I'm a broke student at the moment but I would love to see such a film. Especially if it's not a documentary, but a fiction with all the makings of an entertaining film! I've always planned on writing a story like that.

[TheRodriguezo]

i get so mad watching this videos because i know stuff like this is probably not going to happen in my lifetime but i want it to so bad!! why do we have to be tied down by the government and corporations!!! i hate that. we should for a group of people and make stuff like this happen instead of waiting we should stand up and take them down by any means.

[magnetite2]

As Peter Gibbins once said "Michael, we don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements. "

[goGyft]

Great so nobody has to work ever again and we all spend our life watching tv, doing drugs and fucking hookers or what? All of humanity would become fat decadent slobs

[MudHut67]

@GenRev1611

This video does not mention what form of government there is, nor does it say anything about land ownership. HOWEVER, even in Soviet Russia you 'owned' your home, unless their dictators needed that land for whatever reason. Under this system one could still own a house, and whatever there is inside. The whole point is that energy and the basic human needs are free, and shared, but under this system land ownership is still there, as is possession material.

[GenRev1611]

@MudHut67 Upon what basis is the house owned by. If resources are shared like oxygen how can it be mine?, that is the question.

[MudHut67]

@Shonenut213

How do you know? 1984 is antiquated and iRobot is a Hollywood film. The fiction you need to derive ideas from would be history.

[Shonenut213]

@MudHut67 They are works of fiction. But their senarios are very plausible.

[MudHut67]

@GenRev1611

You make no sense. You will still have a house, a home, a place of residence. So naturally you'd keep your painting there, wouldn't you? How can you not have a house if it is abundant? That's like asking where can they get a glass of water if water is abundant. Really, that made no sense.

[MudHut67]

@Shonenut213

So you base your views on fiction, good to know.

[phoweshg357]

LOL

[skatejam7]

@Shonenut213 No, but he's designed a lot of things and worked for a lot of companies including Universal. You don't need college if you're smart enough and already getting jobs do you, idiot. PS Bill Gates is a college drop out.